Reading F W Maitland’s 1897 work, ‘Domesday Book and Beyond’. Is jolly hard work even to an old-school, History Channelling, amateur pedant who hates the modern world so fucking intensely he nightly prays for a global Armageddon.

Considering the known random variables and imagining all others this was a truly amazing enterprise, now rightly acclaimed as our greatest extant historical credential. Non pareil!